Honey Festival · Aug 9–10, 2031 · Boone, North Carolina
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Dates: Saturday, August 9, 2031 to Sunday, August 10, 2031 (2 days)
Venue: Watauga County Agricultural Center, 210 Poplar Grove Road, Boone, North Carolina
Type: Honey Festival
Boone — the Watauga County city at 3,333 feet where the Blue Ridge Parkway winds through the highest plateaus of the Southern Appalachians and Appalachian State University anchors the High Country's cultural and educational life, surrounded by a landscape of sourwood trees, mountain laurel, black locust, basswood, goldenrod, and Appalachian wildflower meadows that yields what many consider North Carolina's finest and most distinctive honey in the state's renowned sourwood belt — hosts one of the Southeast's most celebrated sourwood honey competitions drawing producers from the highest elevations of the Blue Ridge, Black, Roan, and Grandfather Mountain ranges. This August festival at the Watauga County Agricultural Center celebrates the High Country's extraordinary beekeeping heritage at the heart of America's sourwood honey tradition, featuring competitive classes for sourwood, mountain laurel, basswood, and Appalachian wildflower varietals, guided educational programs on the unique ecology of high-elevation Southern Appalachian sourwood groves, demonstrations on the traditional practice of locating and maintaining mountain bee trees, and culinary showcases pairing Blue Ridge honey with North Carolina's celebrated mountain trout, heritage grains, and Appalachian foodways.
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Official page: ncbeekeepers.org
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